Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Namibia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Peter & Gordon to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by New York Dolls. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Techniques record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Trojans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Saccharine Trust,
Lindisfarne,
Skriet,
Country Teasers,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Q65,
Hasil Adkins,
The Standells,
Surgeon,
Pharoah Sanders,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Moby Grape,
Hot Snakes,
Kool Moe Dee,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Visage,
Junior Murvin,
Chrome,
Hardrive,
Eden Ahbez,
Judy Mowatt,
Archie Shepp,
The Gories,
Ituana,
Make Up,
UT,
Camberwell Now,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Spandau Ballet,
Young Marble Giants,
Cluster,
John Holt,
The Cowsills,
Alton Ellis,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Music Machine,
Outsiders,
T.S.O.L.,
Reuben Wilson,
The Golliwogs,
Morten Harket,
Slick Rick,
Suburban Knight,
Neil Young,
China Crisis,
Simply Red,
Franke,
The United States of America,
Motorama,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Blackbyrds,
Echospace,
Easy Going,
Blancmange,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Walker Brothers,
48th St. Collective,
Matthew Bourne,
The Moody Blues,
Josef K,
Danielle Patucci,
New York Dolls,
The Searchers, The Searchers, The Searchers, The Searchers.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.